The New Jewish Diaspora : : Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany /

The New Jewish Diaspora : : Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany / / Zvi Gitelman.

In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migr...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Bagno-Moldavski, Olena
Ben-Rafael, Eliezer
Dekel-Chen, Jonathan
Elias, Nelly
Gitelman, Zvi
Gold, Steven J.
Krutikov, Mikhail
Lerner, Julia
Nosenko-Shtein, Elena
Ofer, Gur
Pollin-Galay, Hannah
Rebhun, Uzi
Ro'i, Yaacov
Roberman, Sveta
Sandler, Stephanie
Sapritsky, Marina
Shternshis, Anna
Tolts, Mark
Wanner, Adrian
MitwirkendeR:
Bagno-Moldavski, Olena,
Ben-Rafael, Eliezer,
Dekel-Chen, Jonathan,
Elias, Nelly,
Gitelman, Zvi,
Gold, Steven J.,
Krutikov, Mikhail,
Lerner, Julia,
Nosenko-Stein, Elena,
Ofer, Gur,
Pollin-Galay, Hannah,
Rebhun, Uzi,
Ro'i, Yaacov,
Roberman, Sveta,
Sandler, Stephanie,
Sapritsky, Marina,
Shternshis, Anna,
Tolts, Mark,
Wanner, Adrian,
HerausgeberIn:
Gitelman, Zvi,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (338 p.) :; 3 figures, 22 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Homelands, Diasporas, and the Islands in Between
  • Part I. Demography: Who Are the Migrants and Where Have They Gone?
  • 1. Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora
  • 2. The Russian-Speaking Israeli Diaspora in the FSU, Europe, and North America: Jewish Identification and Attachment to Israel
  • 3. Home in the Diaspora? Jewish Returnees and Transmigrants in Ukraine
  • Part II. Transnationalism and Diasporas
  • 4. Rethinking Boundaries in the Jewish Diaspora from the FSU
  • 5. Diaspora from the Inside Out: Litvaks in Lithuania Today
  • 6. Russian-Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the United States: A Comparison of Migrant Populations
  • Part III. Political and Economic Change
  • 7. Political Newborns: Immigrants in Israel and Germany
  • 8. The Move from Russia/the Soviet Union to Israel: A Transformation of Jewish Culture and Identity?
  • 9. The Economic Integration of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel
  • Part IV. Resocialization and the Malleability of Ethnicity
  • 10. Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany
  • 11. Performing Jewishness and Questioning the Civic Subject among Russian-Jewish Migrants in Germany
  • 12. Inventing a "New Jew": The Transformation of Jewish Identity in Post-Soviet Russia
  • Part V. Migration and Religious Change
  • 13. Post-Soviet Immigrant Religiosity: Beyond the Israeli National Religion
  • 14. Virtual Village in a Real World: The Russian Jewish Diaspora Online
  • Part VI. Diaspora Russian Literature
  • 15. Four Voices from the Last Soviet Generation: Evgeny Steiner, Alexander Goldshtein, Oleg Yuryev, and Alexander Ilichevsky
  • 16. Poets and Poetry in Today's Diaspora: On Being "Marginally Jewish"
  • 17. Triple Identities: Russian-Speaking Jews as German, American, and Israeli Writers
  • Afterword: The Future of a Diaspora
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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